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An 8-year-old girl was shot in the leg with an arrow outside the Lawrence Hall of Science this morning, a University of California at Berkeley police captain said.

The girl, who was on a school trip at the science center, located at 1 Centennial Drive, was playing on a large sculpture of a whale in a courtyard when she was shot at about 10:10 a.m., police Capt. Stephen Roderick said.

"She was just climbing on the whale when, out of nowhere, an arrow went through her left leg," he said.

The girl was taken to a hospital, where the arrow was surgically removed.

"She's a trooper," Roderick said. "Her mother is with her and she's doing fine."